![]() There are more, but these are the ones that might captivate a modern audience and leave it wanting more. I've scanned the covers from my hardback collection of what I feel is the Essential set of his novels. It is SF, but as always with EFR its genre is mixed, for example it might be an SF/Crime novel. The curious effect of that is that the book does not date the same as we might expect. He doesn't explain them, he just names them and takes them as read. EFRs first major breakthrough was his 1939 novel Sinister Barrier, which is fascinating in the way he assumes things that nowadays are commonplace. I have always had favourite authors, so today a plug for a perennial favourite, the SF writer Eric Frank Russell, a LIverpudlian with a trans-atlantic style and a terrific sense of humour. Entertaining and witty and very well written. ![]() A series is best, and I have been enjoying M C Beaton, having read now all the Hamish Macbeth books and now having just started the Agatha Raisin ones. ![]() ![]() It leads me into my thoughts on lockdown, where I have been doing much more reading again, which does mean I am always on the lookout for new books to read. I used to use a camera to make images of record, CD and book covers, but latterly I have found scanning to be much more convenient. The Essential Eric Frank Russell 3:59PM Views : 586 Unique : 360 ![]()
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